| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. By Mark Wild. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xi + 298 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)

Over the past three decades, a growing number of ethnic and urban historians have challenged the standard wisdom of theorists of urban America that characterized central cities as made up of highly segregated enclaves of homogeneous newcomers. This characterization, made most explicit in the theories of urban assimilation promulgated by the Chicago School of Sociology, saw movement economically up and residentially out of the central city as leading towards greater interaction with others and the formation of a distinctly American identity. Mark Wild, in his carefully descriptive monograph on early twentieth-century Los Angeles, reverses this standard characterization, depicting the central city as a dynamic and diverse environment in which newcomers regularly interacted with each other across racial and ethnic divides in social, economic, sexual, and political terrains.

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